To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.